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Progressive Values YouTube Channel (400+ video clips) See the channel on YouTube for exploring Progressive Values. Focusing on values and the personal stories of how people developed them. We post all our interview videos to this channel. We add all the video clips about Progressive Values that we find on the internet and you can upload your own videos. From the videos posted here we are making a documentary. What are Progressive Values? Study Group
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Daily Progressive Values Stories Blog
| 29. Progressive Values Stories: Scott Henderson on the Common Good | ||
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I
interviewed Scott Henderson in Los Angeles. Scott told me the Common
Good was the most important progressive value and 'we're all in it
together'. He tells a story about growing up in the 50's and feeling a
sense of community, but that we've lost that now. He thinks conservatives
characterize progressives as wanting to be supported by the state and thinks
conservatives have good intentions and mean well, but don’t fully comprehend
the importance of all of us supporting each other. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/2/114816/5644/781/507737 http://democracyforamerica.com/blog_posts/25163 http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_edwin_ru_080502_progressive_values_s.htm |
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| 28. Failed Conservative Values: Jeeni Criscenzo on Scapegoating | ||
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I interviewed Jeeni
Criscenzo in Sacramento, California. Jeeni brought up the prevalent use of
scapegoating by conservatives. I find it curios how a Conservative
Movement that preaches individual responsibility is so adept at finding
scapegoats and not taking true responsibility. I think it has to do with the
type of responsibility they preach. It is not the unqualified progressive
sense of responsibility, where you feel responsible for yourself and the
society around you, but rather conservatives always talk about a qualified
'individual responsibility' which actually is really no longer true
responsibility, but rather a value of selfish self-centeredness. It's like
taking the value of love or caring and saying we're for 'individual love' or
'individual caring'. The values lose their meaning and are turned into
nothing but the Failed Conservative Value of individual selfishness and
greed. opednews.com/articles/3/genera_edwin_ru_080430_failed_conservative_.htm democracyforamerica.com/blog_posts/25145 dailykos.com/story/2008/4/30/135551/781/1012/506473 |
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| 27. Failed Conservative Values: Barack Obama on the Status Quo v Change | ||
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In his Pennsylvania
primary speech, Barack Obama talked about change and how the Status Quo
resists change. As I interview people about what are Progressive Values and
about how Conservative Values have Failed, the interviewees repeatedly talk
about the conservative fear of change and the promotion of the status quo.
We start off with this exploration of the Failed Conservative Value of the
Status Quo with Barack Obama's speech on change versus the status quo. democracyforamerica.com/blog_posts/25118 opednews.com/articles/genera_edwin_ru_080427_failed_conservative_.htm dailykos.com/story/2008/4/27/164645/549/1006/504461 groups.yahoo.com/group/ProgressiveValues/message/279 |
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| 26. Progressive Values Stories: Brianna Leavitt on Taking Back Family Values - Justice & Responsibility | ||
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I interviewed Brianna Leavitt at the First
Congregational Church of Berkeley. She feels conservatives have taken
over the term Values and Family Values, but she doesn't want to just give up
the words to them. She goes on to talk about the Progressive Values she
learned in her family. Her mother always reached out to the poor and
homeless. Brianna was taught empathy, justice and responsibility
by her parents and grandmother. These are in opposition to the Failed
Conservative Family Values that exclude people. democracyforamerica.com/blog_posts/25113 opednews.com/articles/genera_edwin_ru_080426_progressive_values_s.htm dailykos.com/story/2008/4/26/192548/369/347/504095 groups.yahoo.com/group/ProgressiveValues/message/278 |
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| 25. Progressive Values Stories: Peter Harvey on Community versus Intolerance | ||
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I interviewed Peter
Harvey at a Oakland, California Democracy for America meeting. Peter
passionately talked about the progressive value of community and shared an
early memory of the community reaching out to him. However, he
thinks that conservatives have completely missed the mark of religious
teachings by going off into intolerance. democracyforamerica.com/blog_posts/25089 opednews.com/articles/genera_edwin_ru_080425_progressive_values_s.htm dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/25/14513/0750/374/503043 |
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| 24. Failed Conservative Values: Violence and Brutality | ||
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This article is a rather harsh critique of deeper
Failed Conservative Values. In interviews, Richard Wagner told me he thinks
thuggery is a failed conservative value and Herman Blackmon mentioned
the lynch mob. I didn't think that either the lynch mob or thuggery
were actually values. They seem more like manifestations of a value or
perhaps of multiple values. democracyforamerica.com/blog_posts/25075 opednews.com/articles/genera_edwin_ru_080423_failed_conservative_.htm dailykos.com/story/2008/4/23/13825/2777/677/501723 groups.yahoo.com/group/ProgressiveValues/message/253 |
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| 23. Failed Conservative Values: Barbara, Carole, Nina on Dogmatism | ||
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I'm starting a new series of articles on how Conservative Values have
Failed.
It's obvious that conservative ideas and policies have failed, but the failures go even
deeper to the very heart and essence of the conservative movement, to their
Failed Conservative Values. In this series, we will pull back the mask of
Conservative
Family Values, Conservative Traditional Values, individual freedom, individual
responsibility, individual liberty, Compassionate Conservativism, etc. to reveal the
underlying Failed Conservative Values of fear, authoritarianism, secrecy,
dogmatism, greed, indifference, self-righteousness, arrogance, hypocrisy, etc.
democracyforamerica.com/blog_posts/25030 opednews.com/articles/genera_edwin_ru_080421_failed_conservative_.htm dailykos.com/story/2008/4/21/133117/358/240/500118 groups.yahoo.com/group/ProgressiveValues/message/241 |
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| 22. Progressive Values Stories: Patricia Player on Security | ||
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Patricia Player volunteers for OneCareNow.org, the California
single payer health insurance initiative. I interviewed her at a street fair
in El Cerrito, California where she was staffing the One Care Now booth. She
didn't identify as being progressive because she doesn't like labels. She did
talk about the value and importance of security and from her talk, I realized
the relationship between security and caring. When people don't have health care
and are feeling anxious and insecure, it causes them to become more concerned
about themselves. When they feel secure, knowing they don't have to worry about
having health care, it's easier for them to care about others. If progressives
want to
create a caring society, we need Single Payer Health Care. democracyforamerica.com/blog_posts/25016 dailykos.com/story/2008/4/20/225054/343/560/499798 opednews.com/articles/genera_edwin_ru_080420_progressive_values_s.htm |
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| 21. Progressive Values Stories: Michelle on Values or Non-Values is Insulting | ||
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We interviewed Michelle on Earth Day when she was cleaning up Lake Merritt in
Oakland, California. She's a lawyer and was very careful about the definition
and meaning of the words; values, progressive, liberal, conservative, etc. She
sees complexity in these words and doesn't like to generalize. However, she did
see equality, fairness and social justice as core liberal values. Michelle also
talked about how she finds it insulting the way conservatives talk about values
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| 20. Progressive Values Stories: Carol Dipple on Caring | ||
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I met Carol Dipple at
a street fair in El Cerrito, California. She told me about learning to
care and have empathy for people from her mother. opednews.com/articles/genera_edwin_ru_080418_progressive_values_s.htm democracyforamerica.com/blog_posts/24969 dailykos.com/story/2008/4/18/115529/165/1013/498336 |
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